7-Jane Perkins

Artist: Jane Perkins 

Title: Miniature under the Microscope (Self-Portrait of Nicholas Hilliard)

Media: Found Materials 

Dimensions: 105cm x 105cm

Date: 2010

Info: Before starting a career in the arts, Jane Perkins was  a nurse for 17 years and then a stay-at-home mom for 10 more. It wasn’t until she started studying textiles at the  in 2006 that she realized how much she enjoyed working with recycled materials.

Artist Statement: I am a 're-maker', taking inspiration from found objects and working them into something new.

Background Info: This Piece of work was turned into a game called Eye Spy. See if you can find it all.

I Spy with my little eye .... an amber star and an upside-down fly, a sword, a comb and a whisky cork, a spiral shell and two plastic forks. I Spy a knife with a handle of blue, a pair of gold wings and a sea-lion too, a pale giraffe which is part of a face, an oyster shell, and a car meant to race.

I Spy a heart and a shell on a nose, a blue golf tee and a golden rose, a pair of spectacles that have been broken, a diamond heart - maybe once a love token? I Spy fourteen hooks from a curtain, a gold ivy leaf and a pair of bison, I spy a fat caterpillar of blue and two beady eyes which are looking at you.

Theme: This art connects to the "Recycle 2.0" theme because it uses discarded items to make an image and a fun game.